Lynn C. Woolsey: “14 hours from now it appears the doors of the Federal Government will shut. And it will happen for one reason and one…”

“14 hours from now it appears the doors of the Federal Government will shut. And it will happen for one reason and one reason alone--because of the Republican majority's inflexibility, callousness, and political gamesmanship. For 3 months, they have been in charge of the people's House, but they haven't done one thing that the people want. {time} 1010 They haven't lifted a finger to create the jobs Americans so desperately need. One Republican Member, in fact, said on the House floor last week that we should stop talking about the jobs. Stop talking about the jobs? They don't want to talk about jobs because they don't have a plan to create any. They've offered nothing but deep, painful, unnecessary job-killing spending cuts, and they have refused to budge an inch. I want to cut government spending, Mr. Speaker. But I don't want to take the money from children who need early childhood education. I don't want to take the money from families that need help paying for colleges. And I don't want to take the money from seniors who need medical care. I want to cut the gobs and gobs of money, nearly $7 billion every single month, we're spending to occupy a foreign nation and have our servicemen killed and maimed by insurgents. You want to eliminate wasteful government spending? I say the war in Afghanistan could be number one on our list.…”